What book are you reading right now?

**Hutch** · 06-12-2007, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by flatlander#2

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck

In addition to the nightly reads of the adventures of Clifford, the Great Gracie Chase and others.

Right, I should have mentioned that I read Fox in Socks every night.

Stick with Sometimes a Great Notion - it starts slow but gets goooood!

**IslandSnow** · 06-12-2007, 03:02 PM

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.

Its the fifth book in the seven book series The Dark Tower.

**Van_skier** · 06-12-2007, 03:06 PM

Foods that Fight Cancer by Richard Beliveau & Denis Gingras

**philippeR** · 06-12-2007, 03:13 PM

Ishiguro's Never let me go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go

(French translation. I'm not fluent enough to really enjoy litterature in a foreign language. Though sometimes in re-read books in the original english.)

Just finished Bitterroot, James Lee Burke.

**brutah** · 06-12-2007, 03:30 PM

Currently reading.....

The economics of money, banking and financial markets by Mishkin (alt. edition)

and

some american history textbook by ferriger (or something)

but come next wenesday I will be done with those to classes, plus graduating with a BS in Biology and then I plan to get some real (fictional) reading done starting off with my two favorite authors vonnegut and tom robbins as i stride to read all of these authors books (currently just over half of vonnegut's published works and three or four deep in Robbins)

**lemon boy** · 06-12-2007, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Pope Benedict XVI

Stick with Sometimes a Great Notion - it starts slow but gets goooood!

Negatory on the sometimes a great notion front, such a great movie but a terrible book IMVHO. It is the only known example of a movie being far better than the book.

**Van_skier** · 06-12-2007, 03:35 PM

I forgot about:

Ecoholic, Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada by Adria Vasil

**F#*k you cat** · 06-12-2007, 03:43 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance

Earth in the Balance by Senator Al Gore

Great book and a precursor to his touring slide show and the Inconvient Truth

**Andy_B** · 06-12-2007, 03:44 PM

Chuck Palahniuk stuff right now.... Choke, Survivors and Fight Club
Good stuff.

**maniloff** · 06-12-2007, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by philippeR

Ishiguro's Never let me go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go

Ooh, I love his books. Haven't read that one.

**flatlander#2** · 06-12-2007, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

Negatory on the sometimes a great notion front, such a great movie but a terrible book IMVHO. It is the only known example of a movie being far better than the book.

Read it first time sophomore year high school, then sometime after in college. I like the reread... I do remember the middle portion of the book to be vastly different from beginning. Just got it from the library and am still in Steinbeck land.

**Odin** · 06-12-2007, 03:56 PM

Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before is currently what is on the reading table.

**Moss-Back** · 06-12-2007, 03:58 PM

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Long, but interesting. Not particulary optimistic.

Oh, and the
1984 Kawasaki GPZ900R Factory Workshop Manual

Not a particulary pleasant read, but great fun is the ultimate result.

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**dn4989** · 06-12-2007, 04:03 PM

I've been reading Interesting Tahoe Craig's List Ad (nsr).

It's very good.

**Parvo** · 06-12-2007, 05:43 PM

just finished Freakonomics. meh

just started One Hundred Years of Solitude

**valleygirl** · 06-12-2007, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by japollner

I was thinking of starting that...It looks long, and the print is small...

Might wanna think about it a while... it was tough and not what I filed under "entertaining"... but I read to escape, not to have to think too hard. I do that at work.

Good luck!

**PaSucks** · 06-12-2007, 06:55 PM

Just got "That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley" in the mail. Starting it tonight.

**Spark** · 06-15-2007, 12:10 AM

Finally reading a book for enjoyment.
The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls.

**Arty50** · 06-15-2007, 01:11 AM

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

**train07** · 06-15-2007, 04:33 AM

"Who Do You Think You Are, Charlie Brown?"
Charles M. Schulz

**scarlet begonias** · 06-15-2007, 06:09 AM

Just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha by Aurthor Golden. Great book.

Now reading Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles. Just started last night...so far so good!

**Roo** · 06-15-2007, 06:12 AM

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: thought provoking and inflammatory, if occasionally a little spittle-flecked.

**snowsprite** · 06-15-2007, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by train07

"Who Do You Think You Are, Charlie Brown?"
Charles M. Schulz

Now you have good taste in literature!

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**snowsprite** · 06-15-2007, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Spark

Finally reading a book for enjoyment.
The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls.

Awesome, awesome book. Could NOT put it down...and still thinking about it!

Hey, have you read White Oleander? I read that last summer and if you liked Glass Castle you would probably like WO a lot too.

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